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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

2012 5k challenge

Sometimes I have stupid ideas, however, I can not claim full responsibility for this one. I partially have to blame my friend Brad. On his blog he posted that he wanted to run a 5k every week, under 20 minutes. One of the things he wrote was, “Ambitious, but will demand consistency that I need in order to improve my speed throughout the year.” This struck a chord with me as I read it, and for a few fleeting moments, I thought it was a great idea, and (and this is where I got stupid) I told him as such in the comments section – now, 20 minutes is way out of the question for me, my PR is 23.34 – so maybe I will shoot for 24.

Once I posted the comment of course I immediately regretted it. And then Brad went and saw it and commented we would be able to provide accountability for each other. Crap. I guess now then I am committed.

So, here are my self imposed rules –

one 5k every week. Yes, that is 52 x 5k’s

24 minutes or under. (60 seconds grace for January only – I have only ever twice ran under 24 minutes)

It can be on the treadmill, down a hill, on the flat, a split in a longer race, it just has to be done

It can be a race.

Late spring, I will sign up for a 5k race, shoot for a PR and adjust my required weekly time target to within 30 seconds of that race time. In the fall, I will race another 5k and adjust again

I may only do one or two of mine in an actual race. The bulk of them will be on the track a couple miles from home. I haven't run a 5k race in over a year. I'll be spending the next four weeks building up to the first one. July and August are going to be tough! (as well as the one the week after Uwharrie.)

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I am a 46 year old ultrarunner, who started this madness a few years ago. Graduating from a half marathon to a full marathon, and I am now running ultra-marathons.
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